Our team brings decades of experience developing evidence-based, data-driven policies, managing complex processes with diverse stakeholders, and driving systems-level organizational change. CJI’s energetic staff and network of consultants come from a variety of backgrounds in the criminal justice, public administration, and social science fields.
Meet the TeamAs juvenile justice systems move toward data-driven policies and practices, state and local agencies have become increasingly focused on using performance measures to ensure they are promoting positive outcomes for youth. By analyzing targeted performance measures, agencies can use data to continually improve policies and practices.
*Population data from FY2014-FY 2017 (year of reform to three years after) **Cost per youth based on grant amount allocated and number of youth served (note that some youth were served in multiple programs) Download the infographic Read more about juvenile justice improvements in Georgia
In April 2018, Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin signed a package of seven criminal justice bills designed to curb growth in the state’s packed prisons and strengthen public safety.
In many jurisdictions across the country—including Davidson County, Tennessee, until recently—pretrial decisions have traditionally been made without a robust foundation of evidence-based practice. This has led to inefficient use of taxpayer dollars and poor results. To improve outcomes for defendants and protect public safety, Davidson County embarked upon a journey over the past two years to implement a data-driven, risk-based process to inform pretrial decision making.
A growing list of states and local governments are reforming their pretrial practices to enhance fairness, reduce unnecessary costs, and protect public safety. The Crime and Justice Institute helps jurisdictions analyze front-end criminal justice data and develop and implement policies and practices to reduce pretrial failure and pretrial spending by connecting defendants charged with lower-level, nonviolent
Facing rapid growth in the number of defendants held in custody while awaiting trial, Alaska implemented data-driven and evidence-based solutions to transform its pretrial system, freeing up resources to focus on identifying and mitigating risks defendants pose if released to the community and improving public safety.
The Florida State Senate contracted with the Crime and Justice Institute in 2017 to build on the Institute’s previous work analyzing trends in the state’s prison population by further examining the state’s criminal justice system, assess other states’ policies and make recommendations to alleviate strains on the system.
The population of Kentucky youth housed in juvenile detention centers and other out-of-home placements has fallen 40 percent in two years, outpacing predictions following the passage of Senate Bill 200 (SB 200), a sweeping juvenile justice improvement bill.
CARSON CITY, Nevada – Facing a growing prison population, mounting taxpayer costs, and a behavioral health crisis, a group of Nevada criminal justice leaders today released a package of recommendations to improve public safety and reduce recidivism.
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